LSU senior from Shreveport an 'emerging artist' at Fashion Week in New Orleans

10:50 AM,
Jan. 26, 2013

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CHELSEA BRASTED
The Times-Picayune

NEW ORLEANS, La. - Designer Ella Rose didn't grow up flipping through the pages of Vogue, nor was she the most up-to-date fashionista. The Shreveport native just wanted to make art.

"It's funny now that I think about it," Rose recalled while sitting in her dining-room-turned-fashion-studio. "I never thought of myself as fashion-forward. . In high school, I was obsessed with tie dye. If something was white in my house, it was in danger."

After her high school tie-dye phase. Rose landed at Louisiana State University, where she's looking to graduate in May with a degree in apparel design. Rose is ...